The World Food Championships announced today that it is expanding the field for its World Barbecue Championship in 2015, as well as seeking Master Series sanctioning from the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS).

For more than 40 years, cooking was nothing more than a hobby for Paula Todora, a Fort Worth resident with a 30-year career in commercial insurance. But less than five years ago, she entered a national cooking contest, and it “opened up a whole new world.”